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IN HIS OWN WORDS WORDS
“One of my first takeaways from Auburn was that it’s always about the power of people. It was an amazing place that was focused on people. I loved the Auburn family idea. The power of the Creed really resonated with me… “I like the whole idea of the Auburn family. It doesn’t matter where you are in the world. Somebody says Auburn, and I’m in a crowd and I’m giving a speech or I’m just talking to people, and I will just yell
Navy Admiral Mike S. Rogers ’81
out ‘War Eagle’ or ‘War Damn Eagle’! And you’ll get a group that comes back: ‘War Eagle, War Damn Eagle’!”
COMMANDER OF U.S. CYBER COMMAND & DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY
Auburn University Bachelor of Science, Personal Management and Industrial Relations
After a career in the military spanning more than
top leaders of the armed forces and the civilians
35 years, U.S. Navy Adm. Mike S. Rogers currently
who run the U.S. Department of Defense.
serves as director of the National Security Agency, commander of the U.S. Cyber Command and chief
Rogers assumed his present duties in March 2014.
of the Central Security Service. He was the cover story for the Fall 2016 issue of He has worked in cryptology and signals intel-
Auburn Magazine, interviewed by Lt. Gen. (Ret.)
ligence, recently helping write the Navy’s strategy
Ronald Burgess ’74.
for cyber warfare and “information dominance” in the Internet age.
He and his wife, Dana, live in Fort George G. Meade, Md.
As the director of intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2009-2011, he regularly briefed the
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